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- Volume 2
- Issue 4
- Oct 1958
- Pages 129-134
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The Ammonia Oxidation Process for Nitric Acid Manufacture
EARLY DEVELOPMENTS WITH PLATINUM CATALYSTS
- L. B. Hunt
- Platinum Metals Rev.,
- 1958,
- 2,
- (4),
- 129
Article Synopsis
It is little more than fifty years since the first manufacture of nitric acid by the oxidation of ammonia over a platinum catalyst. Ostwald's original industrial plant had an output of some 100 tons of acid a year; today the world capacity for nitric acid manufacture by this process is about ten million tons a year. This article traces the beginnings and early developments of the process until it became commercially established.
